Place Name Compton and Shawford is a civil parish in the City of Winchester, Hampshire. The name Compton comes from…
Place Name Sherfield, often referred to as Sherfield-on-Loddon, is a village in north Hampshire. The name originates from the Old…
Place Name Ringwood, is an historic market town in Hampshire, close to the New Forest. The name itself has been…
Place Name Directional. This was the main road to Roehampton, connecting it with Barnes and Mortlake to the north and…
Place Name Petersfield is a market town in East Hampshire, founded in the 1100s by William Fitz Robert, Earl of…
Place Name Minstead is in the New Forest; the village’s name is thought to derive from the Old English word…
Place Name Norley is a farm, woodland and hamlet (named Norleywood rather than Norley) in the New Forest near the…
Place Name Alicia Mendez (1925 – March 13, 2006), was an occupational therapist who worked at Queen Mary’s Hospital in…
Place Name Takes its name from small village in the Test Valley, Hampshire. According to the Basingstoke and Deane Conservation…
Place Name Kingsclere, between Newbury and Basingstoke, was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD872 as Cynig’s Clere, meaning…